The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages

by Arche, Maria J.; Fabregas, Antonio; Marin, Rafael

• ISBN13: 9780191868344
• ISBN10: 0191868345
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2019-03-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Maria J. Arche is Associate Professor of Linguistics & Spanish at the University of Greenwich. Her research focuses on the syntax and semantics of tense and aspect and their acquisition. She is the author of Individuals in Time: Tense, Aspect and the Individual/Stage Distinction (Benjamins, 2006) and co-editor of The Grammar Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning (Bloomsbury, 2013), and has edited special issues of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Lingua on aspect and argument structure.

Antonio Fabregas is Full Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Tromso - The Arctic University of Norway. His research concentrates on the syntax and semantics of word-internal structures, with particular attention to grammatical categories, aspect and tense, and the properties of affixes. He is the co-author of Morphology: From Data to Theories (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Contemporary Linguistic Parameters (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Rafael Marin is Researcher in Linguistics at the STL laboratory, CNRS / Universite de Lille 3. His work focuses on lexical aspect and related phenomena. He has mainly worked on non-verbal predication (adjectives and participles, copular constructions), psychological predicates, and morphology-semantics interface. Since 2016, he has been the Director of the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation.

Table of Contents

1. Main questions in the study of copulas: Categories, structures and operations, Maria J. Arche, Antonio Fabregas, and Rafael Marin
2. Copulas and light verbs as spellouts of argument structure: Evidence from Dene languages, Nicholas Welch
3. The support copula in the left periphery, Teresa O'Neill
4. The copula as a nominative case marker, Kwang-sup Kim
5. Number matching in binomial small clauses, Susana Bejar, Jessica Denniss, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, and Tomohiro Yokoyama
6. Agreement with the post-verbal DP in Polish dual copula clauses, Anna Bondaruk
7. On person, animacy, and copular agreement in Czech, Jitka Barto%sova and Ivona Ku%cerova
8. Aspects of the syntax of ce in French copular sentences, Isabelle Roy and Ur Shlonsky
9. The role of the copula in the periphrastic passives in Russian, Olga Borik
10. The copula in certain Caribbean Spanish focus constructions, Luis Saez
11. Variation in Bantu copula constructions, Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guerois, and Lutz Marten
12. Predicational and specificational copular sentences in Logoori, Nicoletta Loccioni
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